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THUS THE LOYALTY test assumes for Jones an almost ritual importance. It is a way of keeping absolutist beliefs absolute. It is not the first the time Americans have heard of loyalty tests: McCarthy once advocated them. In both men it is the old Puritan penchant for the absolute truth surviving deformed through history, breeding paranoia and, in Jonestown, total tragedy...
...undimmed belief from America and into the jungle. It all leads inexorably and even naturally to final dissolution in some unmapped region--just as the hard-bitten crew of the Pequod rowed fearfully yet willingly under the raging Ahab, to the great white whale, to the end of the absolutist quest. How can we so easily write them...
...Farber case is a complicated legal tangle that lends itself to tendentious simplicities. In lawyers and journalists alike, it seems to bring out the worst in exaggerated rhetoric and absolutist moralizing...
...fanatic or an absolutist, declared Farber during his contempt trial before Judge Theodore Trautwein. But, he added, "I believe the First Amendment means what it says about freedom of the press." Editorialized the Times: "A court, no matter how benign, is to us an arm of the state. A promise to protect a source is a promise to protect it against any third party...
...little down on paper as possible.' That an explicit and clear verbal order for genocide was given by Hitler to Himmler is testified to by many, many people who were in a position to know." Among other things, Waite adds, it seems profoundly implausible that in the absolutist Third Reich, anyone but Hitler could have exercised the authority to murder more than 6 million people, in the process employing badly needed transport facilities and millions of work hours. Helmut Krausnick, director of Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, has concluded: "The extermination policy was decided upon by Hitler...